Israel said the war is likely to last another seven months.
CAIRO – Israeli forces have taken control of a buffer zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, the country’s military said on May 29, giving Israel effective authority over the Palestinian territory’s entire land border.Israel also continued deadly raids on Rafah in southern Gaza despite an order from the International Court of Justice , to end attacks on the city, where half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people had previously taken refuge.
The border with Egypt along the southern edge was the Gaza Strip’s only land border that Israel had not controlled directly. “We received distress calls from residents in Tel Al-Sultan, where drones targeted displaced citizens as they moved from areas where they were staying towards the safe areas,” Rafah’s deputy director of ambulance and emergency services Haitham al Hams said.
“The fighting in Rafah is not a pointless war,” Mr Hanegbi said, reiterating that Israel aimed to end Hamas rule in Gaza and stop it and its allies from attacking Israel. More than 36,000 Palestinians had been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, the enclave’s Health Ministry said.
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